Full Circle Post NYC Has Deployed Archion Node 800 SAN

Based in Burbank, CA, Archion Technologies, the Media and Entertainment industry’s provider of intelligent storage for content creation,  announced that New York based post house Full Circle Post NYC has acquired the company’s NODE 800 Storage Area Network system for their growing post demands.

"Archion’s NODE 800 is working out great for us," said Rob Burgos, Owner/Senior Editor, Full Circle Post NYC. "Our editors here are very happy with its performance. We are currently cutting 26 episodes of a lifestyle reality TV series for HGTV, and the NODE is handling the large demand for storage capacity perfectly."

He adds: "Archion has also provided us with really great customer support. During our initial acclimation period, all we had to do was get on the phone and talk with the experts at Archion, and they walked us through the process, every step of the way. NODE was the best product that fit the need for the work flow of our current projects. We will be integrating NODE as well for numerous future projects."

Virtual Media was the NY based Archion authorized reseller that implemented NODE at Full Circle Post. "When Full Circle Post approached me with their need for a robust, fast and affordable shared storage solution," said Spencer Wolfe, Virtual Media’s Strategic Account Manager, "the Archion NODE was the first product that came to mind. Its ease of use, flexible configurations, and unmatched throughput made this the perfect solution for Full Circle. With the NODE’s performance and Archion’s attention to the customer, it was an easy choice."

"We are very pleased to support Full Circle Post with their increased demand for high performance shared storage," said Dan Stern, Executive VP of Sales for Archion. "They represent a growing number of post facilities looking for a high performance SAN solution at an affordable price. The NODE 800 and NODE 2400, which earned the 2008 Broadcast Engineering ÔPick Hit’ Award, deliver a tremendous value proposition for facilities requiring throughput, flexibility, scalability and low cost."

ABOUT NODE:
Archion’s NODE systems are available in two models, NODE 800 and NODE 2400, and are available through the company’s extensive network of authorized resellers.

Among the features of the NODE 800:

• Offers eight drives with independent SAS channels supporting up to 8TB of storage, with four 4-gig ports. All drives are SMART capable for status analysis.
• Supports multiple RAID sets, multiple hosts, LUN masking and storage provisioning of all VDiscs on both ports for switch-less file sharing.
• Upgradeable to 8 GIG Fibre Channel; provides 800 Megabytes per second.
• Each Node 800 has the ability to support multiple clients simultaneously; combining Node™ boxes increases client support.
• Mac and PC Client compatible. Provides 1 Gig of cache RAM tuned for digital video applications.
• Comes with complete system software.

In addition to those cited above, the features of the NODE 2400 also include:

• Configured with up to 24 drives through 4 ports, supporting capacities of up to 24 TB’s of RAID storage. All drives are SMART capable.
• Upgradeable to 8 Gig Fibre Channel.
• Provides multiple streams up to 1200 MBs per second.
• Full compatibility with 1, 2 and 4 Gig fibre channel architecture.